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| 181. | Using Neural Networks to Evaluate Handwritten Mathematical Expressions (willforfang.com) | |
| 179 points | 2016 | author wforfang showed up | their comment | thread
“I'm equally surprised it worked so well with such little training data. Each image contained 1 example of each character (18 total characters * 10 images = 180…” | ||
| 182. | Saved by the compiler: Parallelizing a loop with Rust and rayon (blog.faraday.io) | |
| 179 points | 2016 | author ekidd showed up | their comment | thread
“I'm happy to answer questions! I don't have any performance numbers for this loop because it was already very fast. This was just a warm-up exercise before trying to…” | ||
| 183. | Is Your Site Leaking Password Reset Links? (robots.thoughtbot.com) | |
| 174 points | 2016 | author derekprior showed up | their comment | thread
“I completely agree that it's unlikely to be exploited but also think fixes are mostly simple enough that it should be addressed.” | ||
| 184. | Why Go solves so many problems for web developers (ewanvalentine.io) | |
| 171 points | 2016 | author vegancap showed up | their comment (+3 more) | thread
“thanks for all your (albeit brutal) feedback :)” | ||
| 185. | Distributed Systems in Haskell (yager.io) | |
| 171 points | 2016 | author wyager showed up | their comment | thread
“Glad to see this on HN! Happy to answer any questions.” | ||
| 186. | Using Simulated Annealing to Solve Logic Puzzles (blog.pluszero.ca) | |
| 171 points | 2016 | author ChronosKey showed up | their comment | thread
“Yep, this is the sort of thing we study in our cooperative and adaptive algorithms class. Similar techniques to what you suggest are shown here” | ||
| 187. | Data denormalization is broken (hackernoon.com) | |
| 171 points | 2016 | author Liron showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“Yep, I basically want my database to be a giant Excel spreadsheet that includes formula cells (a.k.a. denormalized fields).” | ||
| 188. | Decentralization is about diversity (sandstorm.io) | |
| 169 points | 2016 | author kentonv showed up | their comment | thread
“Of course. I'm arguing, though, that while user control of data is important, software and developer diversity is more important. I realize this is likely to be a…” | ||
| 189. | The Space Shuttle Challenger Explosion and the O-ring (priceonomics.com) | |
| 169 points | 2016 | author nemild showed up | their comment | thread
“happy to answer questions. I grew up with stories of the Challenger after my father - a statistician - and 2 of his co-authors were selected by National Academy of…” | ||
| 190. | Why Google Wants to Sell Its Robots: Reality Is Hard (bloomberg.com) | |
| 168 points | 2016 | author mappingbabeljc showed up | their comment | thread
“And I think in the tech community it is well understood that robotics is hugely difficult, but it seems like general public pretty much equates progress in software AI…” | ||
| 191. | How to Accept Over-Engineering for What It Really Is (medium.com) | |
| 168 points | 2016 | author fagnerbrack showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“You are right, I did not know the name of the thing because English is not my primary language. Thanks for teaching me that, I have edited the picture caption to show…” | ||
| 192. | Lessons learnt from monetising my Chrome Extension (mikerogers.io) | |
| 168 points | 2016 | author rogem002 showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“so I'm happy to answer any follow up questions you might have :)” | ||
| 193. | A Simple Explanation of How Image Recognition Works (medium.com) | |
| 166 points | 2016 | author ageitgey showed up | their comment | thread
“I just saw this post. I actually cheated to make that illustration better. In a real grayscale image, 0 is black and 255 is white. I inverted the image to make the…” | ||
| 194. | Introduction to Python for Computational Science and Engineering [pdf] (southampton.ac.uk) | |
| 166 points | 2016 | author fangohr showed up | their comment | thread
“There is a Python 3 version of the book available at This also includes Jupyter Notebook files for those who want to execute (and play around with) the chapter content…” | ||
| 195. | The Utah Teapot: Most Important Object in Computer Graphics History (nautil.us) | |
| 165 points | 2016 | author duncanka showed up | their comment | thread
“Thanks for catching this; the mistake was introduced in the editing process. Should be fixed now.” | ||
| 196. | Why VCs sometimes push companies to burn too fast (blog.ycombinator.com) | |
| 165 points | 2016 | author akharris showed up | their comment | thread
“curious if you've seen this happen.” | ||
| 197. | Vuvuzela: private messaging system that protects metadata (vuvuzela.io) | |
| 165 points | 2016 | author lazard showed up | their comment | thread
“I've been working on a follow-up system called Alpenhorn that addresses the bootstrapping problem in Vuvuzela: I will release Alpenhorn and a new version of Vuvuzela in…” | ||
| 198. | A Lisp framework for the creation of electronic art, visual design and more (github.com) | |
| 162 points | 2016 | author vydd showed up | their comment | thread
“Thanks! Finding Sketch on top of HN was very unexpected. If you need help running it, have suggestions, or just want to chat, ping me at #lispgames on freenode, or here.” | ||
| 199. | Visualizing a Job Search Or: How to Find a Job as a Software Engineer (kellysutton.com) | |
| 162 points | 2016 | author kellysutton showed up | their comment (+2 more) | thread
“I didn't mention those things because they were a baseline during my search. Product-market fit, growth potential, and solving a genuine problem are table stakes for me.…” | ||
| 200. | Katana – Modern Swift framework for creating iOS apps, inspired by React/Redux (github.com) | |
| 162 points | 2016 | author lucaquerella showed up | their comment | thread
“please let me know if you like our approach to apps development we internally use it for creating our own apps at Bending Spoons ()” | ||
| 201. | Show HN: Beaker – A browser for IPFS and Dat (pfrazee.github.io) | |
| 160 points | 2016 | author pfraze showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Happy to answer questions or talk about the software. It took about 2 months to write. I used yo-yo[1] for the frontend UI, which I enjoyed using a lot. The rest is…” | ||
| 202. | The Technology Behind A Low Latency Cloud Gaming Service (blog.parsec.tv) | |
| 160 points | 2016 | author chrisd1100 showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Let me know if you have any questions!” | ||
| 203. | Performance Engineering with React, Part 1 (benchling.engineering) | |
| 158 points | 2016 | author saifelse showed up | their comment | thread
“happy to answer any questions!” | ||
| 204. | The Housing Market in San Francisco and Ideas to Fix It (blog.zactownsend.com) | |
| 158 points | 2016 | author zt showed up | their comment (+4 more) | thread
“You make excellent points, and I don't mean to minimize the regional issues. Sure, if I had a magic wand then I'd increase housing being built across the Bay Area. In…” | ||
| 205. | Show HN: Book about writing web apps in Go without a framework (github.com) | |
| 158 points | 2016 | author thewhitetulip showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I'd love to get feedback on the book. I haven't updated much in the last few months. But I am always looking to improve the book for newcomers.” | ||
| 206. | Writing a JPEG Decoder in Rust – Part 2: Implementation I (mht.technology) | |
| 158 points | 2016 | author martinhath showed up | their comment | thread
“I am having some trouble reproducing the 2 seconds number, but with optimizations I'm getting around 1.5 seconds (without, I'm up to 5!), and as balducien mentions,…” | ||
| 207. | Fast Fourier transform in x86 assembly (nayuki.io) | |
| 158 points | 2016 | author nayuki showed up | their comment | thread
“I am embarrassed and surprised to find this article on the front page of HN. I think it isn't well-written, and I never intended it to appeal to a wide audience. The…” | ||
| 208. | Why I'm joining the Dart Team (medium.com) | |
| 157 points | 2016 | author filiph showed up | their comment | thread
“Not sure what you mean, but I definitely didn't have TypeScript in mind. I emphasized "optional" in "optional types" in the bulletpoint where I'm talking about "getting…” | ||
| 209. | What the FlexBox? – A free 20 video course to learn CSS Flexbox (flexbox.io) | |
| 157 points | 2016 | author wesbos showed up | their comment | thread
“it's just 20 videos broken apart into each topic so when you need to come back to reference something, it's quick. Is flexbox hard to learn? Yes, but it's because it's…” | ||
| 210. | Interfaces – The Most Important Software Engineering Concept (blog.robertelder.org) | |
| 157 points | 2016 | author robertelder showed up | their comment | thread
“I submitted this yesterday, but I didn't even get 1 upvote, so I'm glad to see it here today as I think it is a very important topic for discussion. Feedback from the…” | ||
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